The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-19


any foundation for the stereotyped slurs against
Connecticut in that regard. He says that while
under the Connecticut criminal code there were
fifteen capital offenses there were under English
law, and as late 1919, as many as DOB differ
ent crimes punishable with death. The New
Haven and Connecticut colonists, by single
stroke OF legislation. more than century and a
half before. had reduced their liss of capital
ofenses to fifteen. If such reduction, with
hardly an exection for any of them. be not con-
sidered long step in the history of law reform,
law reformers are hard to satisfy"
DR.. J. W. MILAN, of Brucevile, Knox county,
in letter to the current number Of the Indiana
Medical Journal. from New York. says:
''Some New York doctors are rich in worldly
goods. but the great majority of them are with
out treasure. unless it is of that kind that
neither moth nor dust doth corrupt, and thieves
do not break through and steal. DIR. LOOMS is
said to be worth million dollars. and Thomas
is not far behind; but neither OF them would
have been worth one-tenth of that amount If
they had not invested to good advantage. A dis
tinguished practitioner and teacher of general
medicine told NE. to-day, that moneyed men
Ruished had saved their lives, would
frequently tell them of a good chance to make
paying investment, and the doctors would trust
their money blindly to the judgment of their
whilom patients even the aforesaid patients
had trusted their lives to the judgment of the
doctors-and with equally gratifying results. 1t
is a startling statement, but none the less true,
that majority of the physicians of this city are
not making expenses Some OF them come here
with money. stay until it Is exhausted and go to
a smaller place to build up anew. Others stay
on, making enough to pay part of their bills,
move from house to house to avoid rent, and be-
come noted bad pay. Others still have
some source from which to draw continuously
from year to year-some of them being the
inheritors of wealth. So. verify l say unto
you, do not come to New York unless you
have plenty Of money"
A DISPATCH published few days age
stating that the Mexican government had grant
ed thirty million acres of land in the State of
Durango and adjoining the American border to
Mr.. Henry P. Clifford and Mr.. J. A. Verges, of
San Francisco, on condition that the territory in
question should be thoroughly surveyed and it's
known mineral deposits developed within two
years. The tract thus granted was said to be
358 miles long by 126 miles wide. The men who
get such grants are generally adventures of lit
tie means and less character. The Louisville
Courier-Journal says the Henry 2. Clifford men
toned in the dis patch is vol known in that city.
where he spent all OF last winter and spring. 1t
adds:
''He was a member Of the local Order of Elks,
and lived at one of the most fashionable board
ipg-houses in the city. He the free list
at the theaters, and every night WAS seen in the
care at one OF the CLuor place. ne was Regarded
s very rapid and quite sport. He claimed TO
be a civil engineer, and delivered two
lectures on mines and mining. photographs OF
him in dress suit can be seen in several saloons
in the city"
1t is hardly probable that Mr. Clifford and his
partner will establish a new civilization in their
Mexican grant,
THE Journal wishes to call attention to the
fact that It offers advice to college graduates
It's contemporaries every SIDE devote much
space to giving gratuitous instruction to these
young and directions to the proper
method of conducting themselves at the outset
of their various careers in life, but experience
and observation long since convinced the Jour-
nal that not the slightest heed is paid by head
strong youth to these words of wisdom, and it
therefore refrains from any especial efforts to
guide them in the way they should go. The
Journal does not waste its ammunition. In the
course of time, when these young men know
less than now, and have begun to doubt their
own infallibility, they will come and humbly
seek for instruction. Then this paper will be-
stow it freely and gladly. In the meantime,
they will write poetry, "adopt journalism" re
FORM their grandfathers, and attempt other in
judicious things which newspaper mentors
vainly warning them against-and the world
will have to let them do it. College graduates
are made that way.
ONE OF the Journals exchanges contains
description of mathematical wonder, who
doesn't know one printed figure from another,
but who is phenomenally strong mental cal
culations, making them off hand. He claims
that his gift given to him direct from
heaven. He is known as Professor Reuben
Fields, and declares that the Lord made but one
Samson one Solomon, and one Reub Fields; to
the one He gave strength, to the other wisdom,
and to himself infallible mathematical in
stinct This remarkable individual is located in
a newspaper Office in Heginsville, Mo-, by the
paper in which the account occurs, but there is
some reason to suspect that this is an error, and
that the Professor is engaged figuring on the
comparative prices of coal and gas in the Office
of the Indianapolis News. If he claimed ON
niscience we'll as genius in mathematics this
suspicion would be verified.
IT is much to be feared that the good deacons
of the Harrison county church who are about to
prosecute young man for kissing his sweet
heart in meeting are misled by excess Of zeal,
and instead of promoting the cause of godliness
by the suit, are setting up what the preachers
call a stun bling block for souls. Deacons ought
never to grow too old to remember that in the
springtime of life. aud in rural communities.
there is very close relationship between love
and religion, and that interference with the
development Of one sentiment may blight the
other. For the sake of a great principle, as
well as for the comfort of Mr.. Conlee and his
girl, it is to be hoped that the farmers of Harri
son county, when they come to try the case
after harvest, will be more lenient than the
deacons.
WHEN the poetical contributions from the pen
OF Miss Evaleen Stein first appeared in the Jour
nal two o. three years ago. their merit was quick
ly recognized by discriminating readers. and. as
we have reason to know, the development of her
talent has since been watched with interest
This development has we'll sustained the
promise that her name is now a guaranty that
the verses to which it is appended are the spon-
taneous expression of a true poetic thought
Simplicity of utterance added to love OF nature
oh racteristics rather unusual in q Young